When the bankruptcy trustees were to move the abandoned container in Gävle, they made a strange find.
The container had been furnished with furniture – and it turned out that a woman had moved in, writes Gefle Dagblad.
When bankruptcy trustees were to move the container that was at a recycling site in Gävle, they made a strange find.
Inside, it was furnished and there was therefore a suspicion that someone lived in it, which Gefle Dagblad previously reported on.
The container had belonged to a company that in the summer of 2025 moved it to the recycling center to clean it out. The company had later gone bankrupt, according to the newspaper.
The article in brief
A woman in her 40s lived in a container in Gävle.
The police were called after she was attacked with a screwdriver.
Social services suspected residents but found no one on site.
The container was moved after the incident.
As time dragged on, a woman in her 40s chose to settle in it. She took a sofa, books and children’s clothes there and also chose to put a padlock on the door.
According to Gefle Dagblad, social services were contacted in October about a woman and a child living in the container. The municipality visited the place without meeting the people who were said to live there.
Attacked with a screwdriver
A few days after social services had been at the scene, the police were alerted there. The woman was visited by two men and one of the men allegedly poured petrol over a sofa and set it on fire. In the commotion, the same man also grabbed a screwdriver and tried to drill the woman in the stomach.
– He could have drilled me into the flesh. He is completely limitless, says the woman about the man who attacked her in questioning.
The woman survived the attack without any injuries.
No child should have lived in the container
It was after the commotion that she alerted the police and also chose to tell social services that she had lived there, according to Gefle Dagblad.
She should not have told social services that there was a child living in the container, and there is also nothing in the police’s preliminary investigation to indicate that.
After the incident, the container was moved from the site by the auction company that sells the bankrupt company’s assets. According to GD, the attack should be rendered an illegal threat.
